When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They call their old friends and affirm their love for them, as well as detach themselves from them, and… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it is a between state. Therefore, every night when you fall asleep, it's like you die. And every time… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy. — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.” — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
